List of poets

This is a list of poets. It lists notable poets.

Alphabetical list

A

Ab–Ak

• Chris Abani, Nigerian poet
• Hassanal Abdullah (b. 1967), Bangladeshi-American poet
• Dannie Abse (born 1923), English poet
• Milton Acorn (1923–1986), Canadian poet, writer, and playwright
• Léonie Adams (1899–1988), American poet
• Ryan Adams (1974–), singer-songwriter with Whiskeytown and The Cardinals who had his first book Infinity Blues published in 2009
• Fleur Adcock (born 1934), poet and New Zealand native who has spent most of her life in England
• Joseph Addison (1672–1719), English essayist, poet, writer and politician
• Endre Ady (1877–1919), Hungarian poet
• Aeschylus (525–456 BC), Athenian tragedian
• Lucius Afranius (fl. circa 94 BC), Roman comic poet
• Patience Agbabi (born 1965), English poet
• James Agee (1909–1955), American novelist, screenwriter, journalist, poet, film critic
• Dritëro Agolli (born 1931), Albanian poet
• Ai (1947–2010), American poet whose original name was Florence Anthony
• Conrad Aiken (1889–1973), American poet and author
• Mark Akenside (1721–1770), English poet and physician
• Bella Akhmadulina (born 1957), Russian poet
• Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966), Russian poet

Al–Am

• Luigi Alamanni, (1495–1556)
• Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, (1207–1273)
• Alcman (fl. 7th cent. BC), Ancient Greek lyric poet
• Richard Aldington (1892–1962)
• Vasile Alecsandri (1821–1890), Romanian poet
• Claribel Alegria (born 1924), Central American poet
• Vicente Aleixandre, (1898–1984), Nobel Laureate 1977
• Josip Murn Aleksandrov (1879–1901)
• Muhammad Ali, (born 1942), boxer, war protester, civil rights protester, and poet
• Dante Alighieri, (1265–1321), Italian poet
• James Alexander Allan (1889–1956), Australian poet
• William Allingham, (1824 or 1828–1889)
• Damaso Alonso (1898–1990), Spanish poet, philologist, and literary critic
• Natan Alterman (1910–1970), Israeli poet, journalist, and translator
• Al Alvarez (born 1919), English poet
• Amara Sinha (fl. circa AD 375), Sanskrit grammarian and poet
• Ambroise, Norman-French poet of the Third Crusade
• Yehuda Amichai (1924–2000) Israeli poet
• Kingsley Amis (1922–1995) English author and poet
• A. R. Ammons (1926–2001) American author and poet

An–Aq

• Anacreon (570 BC–488 BC), Greek lyric poet
• Alfred Andersch, (1914–1980)
• Hans Christian Andersen, Danish poet (1805–1875)
• Jon Anderson, (born 1944), English rock music vocalist and lyricist
• Mário de Andrade, (1893–1945), Brazilian poet, novelist, musicologist, art historian and critic, and photographer
• Aneirin, medieval (6th century) epic poet
• Maya Angelou, (born April 4, 1928), American Poet
• Antler, (b.1946), American poet
• Brother Antoninus
• Chairil Anwar, (Indonesian poet: 1922–1949)
• Guillaume Apollinaire, (1880–1918)
• Apollo Poetry (1983)
• Apollonius of Rhodes (270–after 245 BC)
• Maja Apostoloska, (born 1976), Macedonian poetess
• Pawlu Aquilina, (1929–2009), Maltese poet

Ar–Au

• Louis Aragon, (1897–1982)
• Archilochus, (ca.680–ca.645 BC), ancient Greek lyric poet
• Hugh Antoine d'Arcy (1843–1925)
• Walter Conrad Arensberg (1878–1954), American Dada–ist
• Tudor Arghezi (1880–1967), Romanian poet
• Ludovico Ariosto, (1474–1533)
• Rae Armantrout, (1947–)
• Simon Armitage, (born 1963)
• Ernst Moritz Arndt, (1769–1860), German patriotic author and poet
• Achim von Arnim, (1781–1831)
• Bettina von Arnim, (1785–1859)
• Matthew Arnold, (1822–1888)
• Jean Arp, (1886–1966), sculptor, painter, and poet
• Antonin Artaud, (1896–1948), actor, playwright, poet, essayist
• John Ashbery, (born 1927)
• Anton Askerc, (1856–1912)
• Margaret Atwood, (born 1939), poet, novelist, essayist
• W. H. Auden, (1907–1973)
• Ausiàs March, (1397–1459)
• Ausonius, (c. 310–395)

Av–Ay

• Margaret Avison (1918–2007)
• Gennady Aygi (1934–2006), Russian poet
• Robert Ayton (1570–1638)
• Krayem Awad (born 1948)

B

Ba

Bab–Bal

• Ken Babstock, Canadian
• Bacchylides, (died c. 467 BC)
• Ingeborg Bachmann, (1926–1973)
• Sutardji Calzoum Bachri, Indonesian Poet
• George Bacovia, Romanian poet
• Janos Bacsanyi, (1763–1845)
• Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński, (1921–1944)
• Julio Baghy
• Bai Juyi
• Joanna Baillie, (1762–1851)
• Bâkî, (1526–1600), Ottoman poet
• John Balaban, (born 1943), American poet
• Jesse Ball American poet
• Konstantin Balmont, Russian poet

Bar–Bax

• Amiri Baraka (aka Leroi Jones)
• Anna Laetitia Barbauld, (1743–1825)
• Porfirio Barba-Jacob
• John Barbour, (c. 1316–1395)
• George Barker, (1913–1991)
• Les Barker
• Richard Barnefield, (1574–1627)
• William Barnes, (1801–1886)
• Elizabeth Barrett(March 6, 1806 – June 29, 1861)
• Matsuo Bashō, (1644–1694), renku and haiku poet
• Michael Basinski, (b.1950)
• Ellen Bass, (born 1947)
• Charles Baudelaire, (1821–1867)
• James K. Baxter, (1926–1972)

Be

• Francis Beaumont, (1586–1616)
• Joshua Beckman
• Gustavo Adolfo Becquer, (1836–1870)
• Thomas Lovell Beddoes, (1803–1849) (English writer in Germany)
• Aphra Behn, (1640–1689)
• Erin Belieu, (born 1957), American poet
• Marvin Bell, (1937–?)
• Gioconda Belli, (born 1948)
• Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli, (Roman dialect)
• Xuan Bello, (born 1965), best-known asturian language poet
• Hilaire Belloc
• Andrey Bely, (1880–1934)
• Gottfried Ben
• Stephen Vincent Benét, (1898–1943)
• William Rose Benét, (1886–1950)
• Gwendolyn B. Bennett
• Jim Bennett (1951) A Liverpool (UK) poet best known for his work during the era of punk.
• Bo Bergman (1869–1967)
• Ilhan Berk
• Daniel Berrigan
• Wendell Berry
• John Berryman
• Charles Bernstein, (b.1950)
• John Betjeman, (1906–1984)
• Helen Bevington (Dr. Johnson's Waterfall)

Bi–Bl

• Laurence Binyon, (1879–1943)
• Earle Birney, (1904–1995), anti-conventional poet, also wrote novels, short stories, drama
• Nevin Birsa, (born 1947)
• Elizabeth Bishop, (1911–1979)
• Bill Bissett, (born 1939), poet, famous for incorporating sound and the visual into poetry
• Sherwin Bitsui, (born 1975), American poet
• Lucian Blaga, Romanian poet (1895–1961)
• Don Blanding, (fl. mid-20th century), American,
• William Blake, (1757–1827), English painter, poet
• Adrian Blevins, (born 1964)
• Aleksandr Blok, (1880–1921)
• Subramaniya Bharathi,Tamil poet,(1882–1921)
• Benjamin Paul Blood, (1832–1919)
• Roy Blumenthal, (born 1968)
• Edmund Blunden
• Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
• Robert Bly

Bo

• Jean Bodel
• Louise Bogan
• Matteo Maria Boiardo, Italian poet
• Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, (1636–1711)
• Eavan Boland, (born 1944)
• Heinrich Böll, (1917–1985)
• Nozawa Bonchō, (c.1640–1714), Japanese haikai poet
• Arna Wendell Bontemps
• Jorge Luis Borges, (1899–1986)
• Tadeusz Borowski
• Hristo Botev, (1848–1876), Bulgarian poet and revolutionary
• David Bottoms, (born 1949), American poet
• Mark Alexander Boyd, (1563–1601)
• Kay Boyle (A Glad Day)

Br

Bra–Bri

• Anne (Dudley) Bradstreet, (c. 1612–1672) Landed in Salem, MA, June 14, 1630 America's first published poet
• Di Brandt, (born 1952), Manitoba poet and literary critic
• Richard Brautigan, (1935–1984)
• Bertolt Brecht, (1898–1956), German playwright, poet, lyricist, notable work: the Three-penny Opera
• Gerbrand Adriaensz. Bredero (1585–1618), Dutch poet and playwright
• Christopher Brennan, (1870–1932), Australian
• Joseph Payne Brennan, (1918–1990)
• Clemens Brentano, (1778–1842)
• André Breton, (1896–1966)
• Nicholas Breton, (1542–1626)
• Ken Brewer, (born 1941)
• Robert Bridges, (1844–1930)
• Robert Bringhurst, (born 1946)

Bro–Bry

• James Brock, (born 1958)
• Joseph Brodsky, (1940–1996)
• Wladyslaw Broniewski
• William Bronk, (died 1999)
• Anne Brontë, (1820–1849)
• Charlotte Brontë, (1816–1855)
• Emily Brontë, (1818–1848), British author
• Rupert Brooke, (1887–1915)
• Gwendolyn Brooks, (1917–2000)
• Joan Brossa, (1919–1998)
• Nicole Brossard, (born 1943), formalist poet
• Olga Broumas, (born 1949)
• Flora Brovina
• Petrus Brovka (1905–1980), Soviet poet
• Thomas Edward Brown, (1830–1897)
• George Mackay Brown
• Sterling Brown, (1901–1989)
• William Browne, (1588–1643)
• Elizabeth Barrett Browning, (1806–1861)
• Robert Browning, (1812–1889)
• William Cullen Bryant, (1794–1878)
• Bryher
• Valeri Bryusov, (1873–1924), poet, novelist, critic

Bu–By

• Georg Büchner
• Vincent Buckley, (1927–1988)
• David Budbill, (born 1940)
• Charles Bukowski, (1920–1994) poet, novelist
• Ivan Bunin (1870–1953) Russian poet and novelist
• Basil Bunting
• Anthony Burgess (1917–1993): Byrne, Revolutionary Sonnets, etc.
• Stanley Burnshaw
• Robert Burns, (1759–1796)
• William S. Burroughs, (1914–1997)
• Edwin G. Burrows
• Andrzej Bursa
• Yosa Buson, (1716–1784), Japanese haikai poet and painter
• Raegan Butcher
• Ray Buttigieg, (born 1955) poet, composer, musician
• Ignazio Buttitta, (Sicilian dialect)
• Witter Bynner (also under Emanuel Morgan)
• Lord Byron, (1788–1824)

C

Ca

Cab–Cap

• Lydia Cabrera (Cuban poet - anthropoetry)
• Caedmon (old English)
• Alison Calder, Canadian poet
• Cali Xuseen Xirsi
• Musa Cälil (1906–1944), Tatar poet, prisoner of the war
• Barry Callaghan, (born 1937)
• Callimachus (c.305–c.240 BC), Hellenistic poet
• Robert Calvert, (1945–1988)
• Luís de Camões, (author of the Lusíadas)
• Roy Campbell (1901–1957)
• Jan Campert,(1902–1943), Dutch poet and journalist
• Remco Campert (born 1929), son of Jan, Dutch poet and novelist
• Thomas Campion, (1567–1619), composer, poet
• Thomas Campbell, (1774–1844)
• Melville Henry Cane, (1879–1980)
• Ivan Cankar, (1876–1918), author, poet, storyteller, dramatist and essayist
• Mary Wedderburn Cannan, (1893–1973)
• Edip Cansever (187–29, 226), formally Emperor Wen of (Cao) Wei, and poet
• Cao Cao, (155 AD–220 AD), warlord, poet
• Cao Zhi, (192–232), Chinese poet

Car–Cav

• Ernesto Cardenal, (born 1925)
• Giosuè Carducci, (1835–1907)
• Thomas Carew, (1595–1639)
• Henry Carey, (1693–1743)
• Bliss Carman, (1861–1929) (Low Tide on Grand Pre)
• Jim Carroll, (1949–2009)
• Lewis Carroll, (1832–1898)
• Hayden Carruth, (1921–2008)
• Anne Carson, (born 1950)
• Jared Carter (born 1939)
• William Cartwright, (1611–1643)
• Cyrus Cassells, (born 1957)
• Catullus, (c. 84BC–54BC), Roman poet
• Charles Causley
• C. P. Cavafy, (1863–1933)
• Nick Cave, (born 1957), singer, pianist, novelist, poet

Ce–Ci

• Paul Celan, (1920–1970)
• Thomas Centolella
• Anica Cernej, (1900–1944)
• Luis Cernuda, (1903–1963)
• Mário Cesariny, (1923–2006)
• Ashok Chakradhar, (born 1951)
• John Chalkhill
• Jean Chapelain, (1595–1674)
• Arthur Chapman, (1873–1935)
• George Chapman, (1560–1634)
• René Char, (1907–1998)
• Craig Charles, (born 1964), (Red Dwarf, Captain Butler)
• Thomas Chatterton
• Geoffrey Chaucer, (ca.1343–1400), Chanticleer the Fox (extract from Canterbury Tales)
• Billy Childish
• Choe Chiwon, Korean (Silla) poet, born 857
• Chiyo-ni, (1703–1775)
• Henri Chopin, (born 1922)
• Chrétien de Troyes, (fl. 12th century)
• Ralph Chubb, (1892–1960), poet, painter, printer
• John Ciardi, Italian-American poet

Cl

• Amy Clampitt
• John Clare, (1793–1864)
• George Elliott Clarke, poet, U of T professor
• Elizabeth Clark (1918–1978)
• Paul Claudel, (1868–1955)
• Matthias Claudius
• Brian P. Cleary
• Michelle Cliff
• Lucille Clifton, (1936–2010)
• Arthur Hugh Clough, (1819–1861)

Co

Coa–Cos

• Grace Stone Coates, (1881-1976), Montana writer
• Jean Cocteau, (1889–1963), French writer
• Leonard Cohen, (born 1934), poet/singer
• Hartley Coleridge, (1796–1849)
• Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, (1861–1907)
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge, (1772–1834), English poet
• Wanda Coleman, African-American poet
• Billy Collins (U.S. Poet Laureate)
• William Collins, (1721–1759)
• William Congreve, (1670–1729), English poet
• Paul Conneally, (born 1959)
• Robert Conquest, historian and poet
• Henry Constable, (1562–1613)
• Clark Coolidge
• Wendy Cope
• Tristan Corbière, (1845–1875)
• Alfred Corn, (born 1943)
• Francis Cornford and Frances Cornford
• Gregory Corso, Beat poet, "Gasoline", "Bomb".
• Jayne Cortez
• George Cosbuc (1866–1918), Romanian poet

Cot–Cow

• Malcolm Cowley, (1898–1989), (Dada)
• Abraham Cowley, (1618–1667)
• William Cowper, (1731–1800)

Cr–Cz

• George Crabbe, (1754–1832)
• Hart Crane, (1899–1932), (The Bridge)
• Stephen Crane, (1871–1900), USA writer
• Richard Crashaw, (1613–1649)
• Robert Creeley, (born 1926), (A Form of Women – Black Mountain School)
• Octave Crémazie
• Charles Cros, (1842–1888), French poet and inventor
• Aleister Crowley, (1875–1947), English Occultist and poet
• Cui Hao, Tang Dynasty, Chinese poet
• Countee Cullen, (died 1946)
• Necati Cumalı
• e e cummings, (1894–1962)
• Allan Cunningham, (1784–1842)
• Allen Curnow, (1911–2001)
• Ivor Cutler, Scottish poet, musician and thinker

D

Da

• Roque Dalton, (1935–1975) Salvadoran poet
• Sapardi Djoko Damono, Indonesian Poet
• David Daniels, (1933– ) Visual Poet
• Jeffrey Daniels, African-American Poet
• Gabriele D'Annunzio, (1863–1938), revolutionary
• Rubén Darío, (1867–1916)
• Erasmus Darwin, (1731–1802), British poet and herbalist
• Mahmoud Darwish, (1941–2008)
• Jibanananda Das,(1899–1954), Bengali poet and author
• René Daumal, (1908–1944)
• Jean Daurat, (1508–1588)
• Alan Davies, American poet
• W. H. Davies
• William Davenant, (1606–1668)
• Donald Davidson, (1893–1968)
• John Davies, (1569–1626), historian
• Jon Davis
• Edward Davison, (organized Colorado Writers 1937 conference)
• Peter Davison, (born 1951), (son of Edward)
• Denis Davydov, (1784–1839)
• Cecil Day-Lewis

De

• James Deahl
• Aurora de Albornoz, (1926–1990) 20th century Spanish poet
• Aleš Debeljak, (born 1961)
• Daniel Defoe, (1659/61? – 1731)
• Madeline DeFrees, (born 1919)
• Walter de la Mare, author, poet
• Thomas Dekker, (1575–1641)
• Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, (1651–1695), 17th Century Mexican Poet
• Leconte de Lisle, parnassian poet
• François de Malherbe, (1555–1628),
• Alfred de Musset, (1810–1857), 19th century poet
• Gérard de Nerval, (1808–1855)
• Baltasar del Alcázar, (1530–1606)
• Tory Dent, (1958– ), (What Silence Equals, HIV Mon Amour)
• Evariste de Parny, 18th century French poet
• Regina Derieva, (born 1949)
• Toi Derricotte, (born 1941), African American Poet
• Babette Deutsch (1895–1982)
• Alfred de Vigny, (1797–1863), 19th century poet

Di–Do

• Pier Giorgio Di Cicco Canadian poet
• Donato DiCristino American Poet
• Diane Di Prima (Memoirs of a Beatnik)
• Souéloum Diagho (contemporary Tuareg poet)
• Jennifer K Dick, (b 1970), American Poet
• Emily Dickinson, (1830–1886), American poet
• James Dickey, (1923–1997)
• Matthew Dickman, (born 1975)
• Michael Dickman, (born 1975)
• Blaga Dimitrova
• Paul Dirmeikis, (1954– ), French poet
• Thomas M. Disch, (1940–2008), American poet, novelist
• Tim Dlugos, (1950–1990), American poet
• Henry Austin Dobson
• Stephen Dobyns, American author, novelist, poet (born 1941)
• Pete Doherty, (born 1979), British musician, songwriter, poet
• John Donne, (1572–1631)
• Hilda Doolittle, (1886–1961), U.S. Imagist poet
• Gavin Douglas
• Keith Douglas, (1920–1944)
• Rita Dove
• Ernest Dowson, (1867–1900)

Dr

• Jane Draycott
• Michael Drayton, (1563–1631)
• Aleksander Stavre Drenova, (1872–1947), Albanian poet
• John Drinkwater, (1882–1937)
• Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, (1797–1848), German poet
• William Drummond, (1585–1649)
• William Henry Drummond, (1854–1907), poet, The habitant
• John Dryden, (1631–1700), poet and playwright

Du–Dy

• Joachim du Bellay, (c. 1522–1560)
• W. E. B. Du Bois, (1868–1963), writer, activist
• Norman Dubie, (born 1945)
• Du Fu, the Poet Saint
• Du Mu, (803–852), Chinese poet
• Alan Dugan
• Carol Ann Duffy, (born 1955)
• Paul Laurence Dunbar, (1872–1906)
• William Dunbar, (1465–1520)
• Robert Duncan (Black Mountain School)
• Douglas Dunn, (born 1942)
• Stephen Dunn
• Helen Dunmore, poet, novelist
• Edward Plunkett, Baron Dunsany, (1878–1957), Irish poet
• Lawrence Durrell, (1912–1990), (A Private Country: Poems)
• Stuart Dybek
• Bob Dylan, born 1941

E

Ea–Er

• EmmaPassions Iruoghene Emesakoru
• Richard Eberhart
• Russell Edson
• Terry Ehret, (born 1955)
• Joseph von Eichendorff, (1788–1857)
• George Eliot, (1819–1880), (Mary Ann Evans)
• T. S. Eliot, (1888–1965), writer
• Ebenezer Elliott, (1781–1849)
• Royston Ellis, English poet inspired by Beat Generation
• Paul Éluard, French poet
• Odysseus Elytis, (1911–1996) Greek poet
• Claudia Emerson, (born 1957) American poet
• Ralph Waldo Emerson, (1803–1882), American author
• Gevorg Emin, (1918–1998), Armenian poet
• Mihai Eminescu, Romanian poet (1850–1889)
• William Empson, (1906–1984)
• Yunus Emre
• Michael Ende, (1929–1995), German poet
• Paul Engle
• Ennius
• Hans Magnus Enzensberger, (born 1929), German poet
• Louise Erdrich, (born 1954), author
• Haydar Ergülen
• Max Ernst, (1891–1976), (Dada)
• Mehmet Erte

Es–Ew

• Maggie Estep, American slam poet
• Wolfram von Eschenbach, (died 1220)
• Clayton Eshleman (Antiphonal Swing)
• Martin Espada, American poet and teacher
• Florbela Espanca, poet
• Salvador Espriu, writer
• Jill Alexander Essbaum, Christian erotic poet
• Claude Esteban (1935–2006), French poet
• Jerry Estrin (1947–1993), U.S. poet
• Euripides (480–406 BC), Athenian tragedian
• Mari Evans
• William Everson (In The Fictive Wish)
• Gavin Ewart

F

• U.A. Fanthorpe (1929–), British poet and CBE
• Christian Falster (1690–1752), Danish poet and philologist
• J.P. Farrell, (1968–), American poet and musician

Fe–Fo

• Fenggan
• Ferdowsi, (935–1020), Persian poet
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919–)
• Leandro Fernández de Moratín (1760–1828)
• Ian Hamilton Finlay, (1925–2006)
• Annie Finch, American poet, librettist, translator, born 1956
• Edward Fitzgerald, (1809–1883)
• Robert Fitzgerald (1910–1985)
• John Fletcher, (1579–1625)
• John Gould Fletcher, (1886–1950), Imagist poet
• F. S. Flint (Imagist manifestos)
• Jean Follain, (1903–1971) French poet
• Theodor Fontane, (1819–1898)
• John Forbes, (1950–1998), Australian poet
• Carolyn Forché, born 1950
• Ford Madox Ford, (1873–1939), promoter of many other writers.
• John Ford, (1586–1639), playwright and poet.
• John M. Ford, (1957–2006), novelist and poet.
• Ugo Foscolo, (1778–1827)
• Hristo Fotev, (1934–2002), Bulgarian poet
• Fazil Jamili, (born 1968), Urdu Poet, Journalist from Pakistan

Fr–Fu

• Janet Frame, (born 1924)
• Robert Francis, (1901–1987)
• Veronica Franco, (1546–1591)
• Naim Frashëri (1846—1900)
• Louis Fréchette, (1839–1908), poet, essayist, journalist, dramatist
• Erich Fried, (1921–1988)
• Max Frisch, (1911–1991), Swiss poet
• Robert Frost, (1874–1963), American poet
• Gene Frumkin, (1928–2007), American poet
• Alice Fulton, (born 1952), Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry winner
• Fazil Jamili, (born 1968), Urdu Poet, Journalist from Pakistan
• Fuzûlî, (1483?–1556), Azerbaijani and Ottoman poet

G

Ga–Gl

• James Galvin, (1951 – )
• Karina Galvez, (1964– ), Ecuadorian Poet
• Asadulla Khan Ghalib, (1796–1869) Urdu & Persian Poet
• Etienne-Paulin Gagne (1808–1876)
• Jean Garrigue (1914–1972)
• Samuel Garth (1661–1719)
• George Gascoigne, (1525–1577)
• David Gascoyne (1916–2001)
• Théophile Gautier, (1811–1872)
• John Gay, (1685–1732), songwriter, poet
• Stefan George, (1868–1933)
• Dan Gerber, (born 1940)
• Paul Gerhardt, (c. 1606–1676)
• Aaref Ghazvini, (1882–1934)
• Charles Ghigna (Father Goose) (born 1946)
• Khalil Gibran, (The Prophet) (1883–1931)
• Wilfred Wilson Gibson (October 2, 1878 – May 26, 1962)
• Allen Ginsberg, (1926–1997)
• Dana Gioia (essays on poetry)
• Nikki Giovanni, (born 1943)
• Giuseppe Giusti, (1809–1850)
• Denis Glover, (1912–1980)
• Louise Glück, (1943 – ) Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry

Go

• Gérald Godin, (1938–1994), Quebec poet and politician
• Patricia Goedicke, (1931–2006)
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, (1749–1832), (part-time)
• Octavian Goga (1881–1938) Romanian poet
• Lea Goldberg, (1911–1970)
• Rumer Godden (In Noahs Ark)
• Ziya Gökalp
• Oliver Goldsmith, (1730–1774), The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes
• Pavel Golia (1887–1959)
• Luis de Gongora, Spanish poet
• Lorna Goodison (born 1947) Jamaican poet
• Sergei Gorodetsky (1884–1967)
• Hedwig Gorski, (born 1949), first Performance poet, American avant-garde literature
• Herman Gorter (1864–1927), Dutch poet

Gr

Gra–Gri

• Anders Abraham Grafström, (1790–1870), Swedish poet
• Günter Grass, (born 1927), author
• Richard Graves, (1715–1804), British poet and essayist
• Robert Graves, (1895–1985), British author
• Thomas Gray, (1716–1771), British poet
• Robert Greene, (1558–1592)
• Dora Greenwell, (1821–1882), English woman poet
• Horace Gregory
• Eamon Grennan
• Fulk Greville, (1554–1628)
• Susan Griffin
• Bill Griffiths, (born 1948)
• Franz Grillparzer
• Nicholas Grimald, (1519–1562)
• Angelina Weld Grimke
• Charlotte Forten Grimke

Gro–Gy

• Stanisław Grochowiak
• Philip Gross
• Igo Gruden, (1893–1948)
• Edgar Guest, (American poet of the 1920s)
• Jorge Guillen, (1893–1984)
• Nicolas Guillén, (1902–1989), (Cuban poet)
• Guido Guinizelli
• Guiot de Provins, (French poet of the 12th century)
• Gül Baba
• Nikolay Gumilyov, (1886–1921)
• Ivan Gundulić (Gianfrancesco Gondola), (1589–1638)
• Thom Gunn, (born 1929)
• Ivor Gurney, (1890–1937)
• Lars Gustafsson, (born 1936) Swedish poet
• Pedro Juan Gutiérrez (Cuba, 1950– )
• Brion Gysin, (1916–1986)

H

Ha

• Marilyn Hacker
• Mohamed Ibrahim Warsame 'Hadrawi'
• Hafez, (1315–1390), Persian poet
• Hai Zi
• John Haines, (born 1924)
• Han Yu
• Han-Shan
• Thomas Hardy, (1840–1928), English poet
• Jim Harrison, (born 1937)
• Tony Harrison, (born 1937)
• Carla Harryman, (born 1952)
• David Harsent
• Peter Härtling
• Gwen Harwood
• Alamgir Hashmi
• Ahmet Haşim
• Olav Hauge, (1908–1994)
• Gerhart Hauptmann, (1862–1946)
• Stephen Hawes, (died 1523)
• Robert Stephen Hawker, (1803–1875), Cornish poet/vicar
• Robert Hayden

He

• Seamus Heaney, (born 1939), Saoi of Aosdána
• John Heath-Stubbs
• Anne Hébert, poet and novelist
• Anthony Hecht, (1923–2004)
• Jennifer Michael Hecht
• Markus Hediger, poet and translator
• John Hegley, also performs as half of the "Popticians"
• Heinrich Heine, (1797–1856)
• Felicia Hemans, (1793–1835)
• Essex Hemphill, (1957–1995)
• William Ernest Henley, (1849–1903)
• Adrian Henri
• Robert Henryson, (died c.1500) Scottish poet
• George Herbert, (1593–1633), public orator and poet
• Zbigniew Herbert
• Johann Gottfried Herder, (1744–1803)
• Miguel Hernandez, (1910–1942)
• Antoine Héroet, (died 1568)
• Robert Herrick, (1591–1674), English poet
• Hesiod, ancient Greek poet
• Phoebe Hesketh, (1909–2005), English poet
• Hermann Hesse, (1877–1962), author of The Glass Bead Game, Steppenwolf
• Dorothy Hewett, novelist, poet
• Thomas Heywood, (157?–1650)

Hi–Hr

• William Heyen, poet, literary critic, novelist
• Dick Higgins, (1938–1998), Fluxus poet, and publisher
• Scott Hightower, (born 1952)
• Geoffrey Hill, (born 1932)
• Nazım Hikmet
• Ellen Hinsey, poet
• George Parks Hitchcock (1914–2010), U.S. poet and publisher of "Kayak" magazine
• H.L. Hix, American poet
• Rolf Hochhuth, (born 1931), playwright
• Hugo von Hofmannsthal, (1874–1929)
• James Hogg, (1770–1835)
• Friedrich Hölderlin, (1770–1843)
• John Hollander, (born 1929)
• Oliver Wendell Holmes, (1809–1894), USA scholar
• Homer, epic poet, author of the Iliad and the Odyssey
• Hugh Hood, Master work is 12 volume novel-series (The New Age).
• Thomas Hood, (1798–1845)
• A. D. Hope (July 21, 1907 – July 13, 2000)
• Gerard Manley Hopkins, (1844–1889)
• Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace), Roman lyric poet
• George Moses Horton
• Joan Houlihan
• A. E. Housman, (1859–1936)
• Henry Howard (Earl of Surrey), (1517–1547)
• Richard Howard
• Fanny Howe
• Susan Howe

Hu–Hy

• Mohammad Nurul Huda, a modern poet from Bangladesh
• Langston Hughes, (1902–1967)
• Ted Hughes, (1930–1998)
• Richard Hugo
• Victor Hugo, (1802–1885), novelist, poet, and playwright
• Vicente Huidobro, (1893–1948)
• Lynda Hull, (1954–1994)
• Alexander Hume, (1560–1609)
• James Henry Leigh Hunt, (1784–1859), English poet
• Ho Xuan Huong, (1772–1822)
• Aldous Huxley, (1894–1963)

I

• Ikkyu, (1394–1481)
• Avetik Isahakyan, (1875–1957), an Armenian lyric poet

J

Ja–Ju

• FP Jac (1955–2008), Danish poet
• Rolf Jacobsen, (1907–1994)
• Richard Jago, (1715–1781)
• Emmanuel Jakpa
• Clive James
• Randall Jarrell
• Robinson Jeffers, (died 1962)
• Simon Jenko, (1835–1869)
• Elizabeth Jennings
• Jia Dao
• John of the Cross (1542–1591), Spanish mystic and poet
• Edmund John
• Georgia Douglas Johnson
• Helene Johnson
• James Weldon Johnson, (1871–1938), author, poet, folklorist, and civil rights leader
• Lionel Johnson
• Samuel Johnson, (1709–1784)
• David Jones, (1895–1974), artist and poet
• Richard Jones
• Ryan Jones
• Ben Jonson, (1573–1637), poet and dramatist
• June Jordan, (1936–2002), American poet and educator
• Anthony Joseph
• Jovan Jovanović Zmaj (1833–1904)
• James Joyce, (1882–1941)
• Frank Judge, (born 1946), editor & publisher, poet, translator and film critic
• Jamal Jumá, (born 1956)
• Donald Justice, (1925–2004), poet and artist
• Juvenal (late 1st and early 2nd centuries CE) Roman satirist

K

Ka–Kh

• Kabir, Indian social reformer.
• Kālidāsa'Sanskrit poet
• Kambar,Tamil poet, (12th century BC)
• Kazi Nazrul Islam, Rebel poet of Bengal
• Jim Kacian (born 1953)
• Uuno Kailas (1901–1933), Finnish
• Kálmán Kalocsay, (1891–1976)
• Ilya Kaminsky (born 1977)
• Orhan Veli Kanik
• Jaan Kaplinski, (born 1941)
• Andreas Karavis, (born 1932)
• Erich Kästner, (1899–1974), poet, novelist
• Bob Kaufman (coined "Beatnik")
• Shirley Kaufman (born 1923)
• Patrick Kavanagh, (1904–1967)
• John Keats, (1795–1821)
• Weldon Kees
• Arthur Kelton, (d. 1549/1550)
• X. J. Kennedy
• Jack Kerouac, (1922–1969), US writer
• Frederick Kesner (born 1967) Australian poet
• Keorapetse Kgositsile
• Khushal Khan Khattak
• Omar Khayyám, (1048–1122)
• Velemir Khlebnikov, (1885–1922)
• Vladislav Khodasevich, (1886–1939)
• Nikos Kavvadias, (1910–1975), Greek poet

Ki–Kn

• Takarai Kikaku, (1661–1707), Japanese haikai poet and a disciple of Matsuo Bashō
• Joyce Kilmer, (1886–1918)
• Amy King
• Henry King, (1592–1669)
• William King, (1663–1712)
• Gottfried Kinkel, (1815–1882)
• Galway Kinnell (born 1927, Body Bags)
• John Kinsella (born 1963)
• Thomas Kinsella
• Rudyard Kipling, (1865–1936), Just So Stories
• Necip Fazıl Kısakürek
• Eila Kivikk'aho (1921–2004)
• Carolyn Kizer, (born 1925)
• Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, (1724–1803)
• Etheridge Knight

Ko

Kob–Ky

• Kobayashi Issa, (1763–1828), Japanese haikai poet
• Jan Kochanowski (1530–84)
• Kenneth Koch (NY Poet school)
• Yusef Komunyakaa (born 1948), Pulitzer Prize recipient, (Dien Cai Dau, Neon Vernacular, etc.)
• Faik Konica
• Ted Kooser, (born 1939)
• Srecko Kosovel (1904–1926)
• Dezső Kosztolányi Hungarian poet
• Taja Kramberger (born 1970)
• Dimitris P. Kraniotis (born 1966), Greek poet
• Ignacy Krasicki (1735–1801)
• Ruth Krauss
• Awad Krayem (born 1948)
• Miroslav Krleža (1589–1638), poet, novelist
• Marilyn Krysl
• Anatoly Kudryavitsky (born 1954), poet, novelist
• Maxine Kumin
• Stanley Kunitz
• Tuli Kupferberg (1923–)
• Onat Kutlar
• Stephen Kuusisto, (born 1955)
• Kusumagraj, eminent Indian Marathi poet, writer and humanist

L

La

• Pierre Labrie (1972– ), poet from Quebec
• Jarkko Laine, Finnish poet
• Philip Lamantia
• Alphonse de Lamartine
• Charles Lamb (1775–1834)
• Letitia Elizabeth Landon
• Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864), (English writer in Italy)
• Laozi, (Lau-tzu)
• Philip Larkin, (1922–1985)
• James Laughlin, (1914–1997)
• Comte de Lautréamont (1846–1870)
• Jan Lauwereyns (born 1969)
• D. H. Lawrence (1885–1930)
• Henry Lawson, prose and poetry
• Layamon
• Irving Layton, Canadian poet (1912–2006)
• Emma Lazarus

Le

• Edward Lear (1812–1888)
• Jan Lechon
• Francis Ledwidge (1887–1917)
• David Lee, (born 1966)
• Dennis Lee, writer of children's poetry
• Eino Leino (1878–1926), Finnish
• Sue Lenier English poet and playwright
• Lalitha Lenin
• John Leonard (1965– ) Australian
• Giacomo Leopardi (1798–1837), Italian poet
• Mikhail Lermontov (1814–1841), poet, novelist
• Ben Lerner, (born 1979)
• Boleslaw Lesmian
• Rika Lesser
• Gotthold Lessing, playwright, poet
• Denise Levertov (Black Mountain triumvirate)
• Dana Levin (poet), (born 1965)
• Philip Levine
• Larry Levis
• D. A. Levy (1942–1968), artist, poet, and publisher
• William Levy
• Saunders Lewis (1893–1985)
• Wyndham Lewis (1884–1957)

Li

• Li Hou Zhu, (931–978)
• José Lezama Lima (Cuban)
• Tim Liardet
• Li Po, (701–762), the Poet Immortal
• Li Qiao
• Li Qingzhao
• Li Shangyin
• Tim Lilburn
• Anne Morrow Lindbergh, (1906–2001)
• Sarah Lindsay
• Vachel Lindsay, (1879–1931)
• Thomas Lodge, (1556–1625)
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, (1807–1882), American
• Federico García Lorca
• Audre Lorde, (1934–1992) American poet
• Richard Lovelace, (1618–1658)
• Amy Lowell, (1874–1925), American
• James Russell Lowell, (1819–1891), American
• Robert Lowell, (1917–1977), American
• Mina Loy (Dada)
• Lu You
• Gherasim Luca
• Lucilius
• Maria White Lowell, (1821–1853), American
• Lucan, (39–65), Roman
• Lucretius, (98?–55 BC), physicist
• Fitz Hugh Ludlow (1836–1870)
• Luo Binwang
• Mario Luzi
• John Lydgate, (1370–1450)
• John Lyly, (1553–1606)
• George Lyttelton, (1709–1773)

M

Ma

Mac–Mak

• Hugh MacDiarmid, (1892–1978)
• George MacDonald, (1824–1905), poet, novelist
• Sorley MacLean, (1911–1996), Scots Gaelic poet
• Gwendolyn MacEwen, Canadian writer, poet
• Antonio Machado, (1875–1939)
• Arthur Machen, (1863–1947), Irish poet
• Compton Mackenzie
• Archibald MacLeish, (1892–1982)
• Louis MacNeice, (1907–1963)
• Haki R. Madhubuti
• John Gillespie Magee, Jr., (1922–1941) (aviation poet, combat pilot officer)
• Derek Mahon (Northern Irish poet)
• Rudolf Maister (1874–1934), general and poet
• G. D. Madgulkar (1919–Unknown) Marathi and Hindi poet, lyricist, playwright, actor and orator.
• Clarence Major (born 1936)
• Majeed Amjad (Pakistani poet)

Mal–Mar

• Manicka Vasagar, Tamil Poet, Saiva Religion, (5th Century BC)
• Stephane Mallarme, (1842–1898)
• David Mallet, (c.1705–1765)
• Sir Thomas Malory
• Goffredo Mameli (1827–1849), Italian patriot, poet and writer
• Osip Mandelstam (1891–1938), (also spelt Mandelshtam), Russian poet
• James Clarence Mangan
• Bill Manhire (born 1946)
• Marcus Manilius (1st century)
• Heinrich Mann, (1871–1950)
• Klaus Mann, (1906–1949)
• Thomas Mann, (1875–1955), author
• Ruth Manning-Sanders, (1895–1988)
• Robert Mannyng of Brunne, (1269–1340)
• Chris Mansell (1953–)
• Alessandro Manzoni, (1785–1873), poet, novelist
• Ausias March, (1397–1459), poet of the 15th century
• Marie de France, (fl. 12th century)
• Giambattista Marini, (1569–1625)
• Edwin Markham
• Christopher Marlowe, (1564–1593), English playwright
• Clément Marot, (1496–1544)
• José Martí, (1853–1895), Cuban poet and writer.
• Martial (40–ca. 102), Roman epigrammist
• Harry Martinson, (1904–1978), Swedish poet
• Andrew Marvell, (1621–1678)

Mas–Maz

• John Masefield, (1878–1967)
• Edgar Lee Masters, (1869–1950)
• Glyn Maxwell, (born 1962)
• Vladimir Mayakovsky, (1893–1930)
• Karl May, (1842–1912), German poet

Mc

• Michael McClure (Dark Brown – beat)
• John McCrae, (1872–1918), In Flanders Fields
• Bryant H. McGill
• Elvis McGonagall
• William Topaz McGonagall, (died 1902), reputed to be the worst poet in the history of the English language
• Roger McGough, (born 1937), comedian, poet
• Campbell McGrath
• Wendy McGrath
• Thomas McGrath, (1916–1990)
• Heather McHugh, (born 1948)
• Duncan McIntyre, Gaelic poet, aka Duncan Ban McIntyre
• James McIntyre, (1827–1906), the "Cheese Poet", known as the worst poet in Canadian history
• Claude McKay
• Don McKay
• Rod McKuen
• James McMichael (born 1939)
• Richard Mc Sweeney (born 1955) Irish poet, seer; a practitioner of the ancient art of self-originating artistry.

Me

• Norman MacCaig
• Mei Yaochen
• Meng Haoran
• George Meredith, (1828–1909), English poet, novelist
• Kersti Merilaas, (1913–1986), Estonian poet, member of the Arbujad
• Stuart Merrill, (1863–1915), (symbolist)
• James Merrill, (1926–1995), (The Inner Room & Nights and Days)
• Thomas Merton, (1915–1968), American author and Trappist monk
• W.S. Merwin, (The Miner's Pale Children)
• Sarah Messer, (born 1966), American poet and writer
• Charlotte Mew, (1869–1928)
• Henry Meyer, (1840–1925)

Mi–Ml

• Michael Madhusudan Dutt
• Henri Michaux, poet and painter
• Adam Mickiewicz, (1798–1855), outstanding Polish poet and writer
• Veronica Micle (1850–1889)
• Agnes Miegel, (1879–1964)
• Josephine Miles
• Edna St. Vincent Millay, (1892–1950)
• Joaquin Miller, (1837–1913)
• Leslie Adrienne Miller
• Spike Milligan, (1918–2002), (The Goon Show)
• Czesław Miłosz, Polish poet, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980 (1911–2004)
• Alice Duer Miller
• Grazyna Miller, poet and translator Italian –Polish,
• Jane Miller
• John Milton, (1608–1674), English poet
• Gabriela Mistral, (1889–1957), Winner of the nobel prize for literature.
• Adrian Mitchell
• S. Weir Mitchell, American novelist, poet
• Ndre Mjeda

Mo

• Harold Monro
• Harriet Monroe (Poetry magazine)
• Charles Montagu (1st Earl of Halifax), (1661–1715), creator of the Bank of England
• Eugenio Montale (Nobel Laureate)
• Alan Moore (poet) (contemporary Irish poet, born 1960)
• Marianne Moore, (1887–1972)
• Merrill Moore, (1903–1957), Sonneteer
• Thomas Moore, (1779–1852)
• Dom Moraes
• John Morgan, (1688–1733)
• Christian Morgenstern, (1871–1914)
• William Morris, (1834–1896), (Norse sagas & old French matter)
• Jim Morrison (poet, songwriter)
• Stephen Morse (1945 – ), (American Small Press Poet and Publisher)
• Valzhyna Mort (born 1981)
• Moschus (fl. 2nd century BC), bucolic poet
• Howard Moss
• Andrew Motion, (poet laureate 1999–2009)
• Enrique Moya, (poet, fiction writer, essayist, born 1958)

Mu

• Micere Githae Mugo,(born 1942), Kenyan poet
• Taha Muhammad Ali, (born 1931), Palestinian poet
• Erich Mühsam, (1878–1934), German poet and revolutionary
• Paul Muldoon, (born 1951)
• Lale Müldür, (born 1956)
• Laura Mullen, American poet
• Sheila Murphy, U.S. poet
• George Murray, (born 1971), Canadian poet
• Joan Murray, (born 1945), U.S. poet.
• Les Murray, (born 1938)
• Anthony Munday, (1553–1633)
• Richard Murphy, poet, member of Aosdána
• Susan Musgrave, Poet.
• Muhammad Tahir ul-Qadri, Pakistani poet and scholar
• George Murnu, aromanian poet

My

• Lam Quang My, Vietnamese poet

N

Na–Nj

• Vladimir Nabokov, (1899–1977)
• Naseer Ahmed Nasir( born 1954, Eminent Pakistani poet, Editor Tasteer)
• Ogden Nash, (1902–1971)
• Thomas Nashe, (1567–1601)
• Nedîm, (1681?–1730), Ottoman poet
• John Neihardt, (1881–1973)
• Émile Nelligan, (1879–1941), Quebec poet
• Howard Nemerov, (born 1920), (Guide to the Ruins)
• Pablo Neruda, (Residence on Earth 1946), Winner of the nobel prize for literature.
• Nesîmî, (d. 1417?), Azerbaijani poet
• Neşâtî, (d. 1674), Ottoman poet
• Henry Newbolt, (1862–1938), historian, poet
• John Henry Newman, (1801–1890)
• Nezami, (1141–1209), Persian poet
• Aimee Nezhukumatathil (1974– )
• B. P. Nichol, (1944–1988)
• John Gambril Nicholson (6 October 1866 – 1 July 1931)
• Lorine Niedecker (May 12, 1903 – December 31, 1970)
• Millosh Gjergj Nikolla (Migjeni), (1911–1938)
• Petar Petrovic Njegos, (1813–1851), Serb poet & ruler
• Noon Meem Rashid (Pakistani poet)

No–Ny

• Christopher Nolan, (born 1970), poet, member of Aosdána
• Fan Noli (January 6, 1882 – March 13, 1965)
• Nolla, Olga (1938–2001), Puerto Rican poet and writer
• Caroline Norton (1808–1877)
• Cyprian Kamil Norwid
• Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg), (1772–1801), German poet and novelist
• Alfred Noyes
• Julia Nyberg (1784–1854)
• Naomi Shihab Nye

O

• Ron Offen (1930–)
• Dennis O'Driscoll, (born 1954), Irish poet
• Frank O'Hara (1926–1966), New York School
• Sharon Olds
• Mary Oliver
• Charles Olson (Black Mountain School founder)
• Saishu Onoe, Japanese poet
• George Oppen
• Edward Otho Cresap Ord, II, American painter & poet
• Peter Orlovsky (beat)
• Gregory Orr (born 1947)
• Öser
• Alice Oswald
• Ouyang Xiu
• Ovid, (43 BC–17 AD), Roman poet
• Wilfred Owen, (1893–1918)
• Ismet Özel

P

Pa

• Ruth Padel (born 8 May 1946)
• Ron Padgett
• Grace Paley
• Francis Turner Palgrave (September 28, 1824 – October 24, 1897)
• Palladas
• Michael Palmer, (1943–)
• Daniele Pantano, (1976–)
• Dorothy Parker, (1893–1967)
• Thomas Parnell, (1670–1718)
• Nicanor Parra, Chile
• Giovanni Pascoli, Italian poet
• Boris Pasternak, (1890–1960), novelist
• Kenneth Patchen, (1911–1972)
• Andrew Barton Paterson (banjo)
• Don Paterson
• Coventry Patmore
• Brian Patten
• Cesare Pavese, (1908–1950), Italian poet
• Octavio Paz, (1914–1998), Mexican poet

Pe–Pl

• Thomas Love Peacock, (1785–1866), English poet, novelist
• Patrick Pearse, poet, teacher and leader of the Easter Rising
• Charles Péguy, 20th century poet
• Kathleen Peirce, (born 1956)
• Sam Pereira
• Lucia Perillo
• Persius (34–62), Roman poet
• Fernando Pessoa, (1888–1935)
• Robert Peters, (1924–) American poet
• Pascale Petit
• Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca), (1304–1374)
• Ambrose Philips
• Tanwir Phool,(born 1948) English & Urdu Pakistani poet
• Pindar (522–443 BC), Theban lyric poet
• Robert Pinsky (former US poet laureate)
• Ruth Pitter
• Christine de Pizan, (circa 1365–circa 1430), historian, poet, philosopher
• Sylvia Plath, (1932–1963),
• Shmuel Plavnik(1886–1941), Belarusian poet and writer

Po–Pu

• Edgar Allan Poe, (1809–1849), US mystery writer and poet
• Edward Pollock, (1823–1858), California poet
• Marie Ponsot, (born 1921)
• Alexander Pope, (1688–1744), English poet
• Antonio Porchia, (1885–1968), Italian poet
• Judith Pordon, (born 1954), American poet
• Ezra Pound, (1885–1972), (Imagist movement leader)
• Halina Poswiatowska
• Winthrop Mackworth Praed
• E.J. Pratt Canadian poet
• France Prešeren, (1800–1849), Slovene
• Jacques Prévert, (1900–1977), French poet
• Robert Priest Canadian poet
• Richard Price (born 1966)
• Matthew Prior, (1664–1721)
• Bryan Waller Proctor
• Sextus Propertius, (50 or 45–15 BCE), Latin Poet
• Kevin Prufer (born 1969)
• Luigi Pulci
• Aleksandr Pushkin, (1799–1837), Russian poet

Q

• Nizar Qabbani

R

Ra–Re

• Dalia Rabikovich, (born 1936)
• Shamsur Rahman, 20th century modern poet from Bangladesh
• Kathleen Raine, (1908–2003)
• Samina Raja, Pakistani poet
• Carl Rakosi (1903–2004)
• Dudley Randall
• Agnes Rapai, (1952– Hungarian poet
• Thomas Randolph, (1605–1635)
• Edwin Ranjbar, (1596–1642)
• John Crowe Ransom, (1888–1974)
• Stephen Ratcliffe, (born 1948), U.S. poet
• Tom Raworth
• Man Ray, (1890–1976), (Dada)
• Wayne Ray, 1950 –
• Angela Readman
• Henry Reed, (1914–1986)
• Ishmael Reed
• James Reaney
• Abraham Regelson, (1896–1981)
• Christopher Reid (In the Echoey Tunnel)
• Erich Maria Remarque, (1898–1970), author of Im Westen nichts Neues, or All Quiet on the Western Front (1929)
• Kenneth Rexroth (1905–1982)
• Charles Reznikoff
• Pi Rixiu

Ri

• Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi (1941–2001)Sufi, poet & author
• Stan Rice, (1943–2002), poet and artist
• Adrienne Rich
• Lola Ridge, (1873–1941)
• Laura Riding, (1901–1981)
• Anne Ridler
• James Whitcomb Riley, (1853–1916)
• Rainer Maria Rilke, (1875–1926)
• Arthur Rimbaud, (1854–1891), symbolist poet
• Alberto Rios (born 1952)

Ro

• Edwin Arlington Robinson, (1869–1935)
• Mary Robinson, (1990–1997), Irish poet
• Georges Rodenbach, Symbolist poet and novelist
• José Luis Rodríguez Pittí (1971 – ), Panamanian poet and artist
• Theodore Roethke, (1908–1963)
• David Romtvedt
• Pierre de Ronsard, (1524–1585)
• Peter Rosegger, (died 1918)
• Franklin Rosemont, (born 1943)
• Penelope Rosemont
• Isaac Rosenberg, (1890–1918)
• Christina Rossetti, (1830–1894), English poet
• Dante Gabriel Rossetti, (1828–1882), English poet
• Nicholas Rowe
• Richard Rowlands, (1565–1630)
• Susanna Roxman
• Tadeusz Różewicz

Ru–Ry

• Friedrich Rückert
• Muriel Rukeyser, (1913–1980)
• Johan Ludvig Runeberg, (1804–1877)
• Rumi
• Nipsey Russell, comedian widely regarded as the "poet laureate of television"
• Andrus Rõuk (born 1957)
• Ryōkan, (1758–1831), Japanese calligrapher and poet

S

Sa

• Umberto Saba
• Sa'di, (1184–1283/1291), Persian poet
• Benjamin Alire Saenz (born 1954)
• Ali Ahmad Said, (1930– )
• Mellin de Saint-Gelais, (ca. 1491–1558)
• Carl Sandburg, (1878–1967)
• Satsvarupa Das Goswami (1939–)
• Sonia Sanchez
• Michal Šanda, (1965– ), Czech poet
• Sappho, ancient Greek poet
• Ann Sansom, contemporary English poet
• Taneda Santōka, (1882–1940), Japanese free-verse haiku poet
• William Saroyan, (1908–1981), an American author of Armenian descent
• Siegfried Sassoon, (1886–1967), British war poet
• Subagio Sastrowardoyo, (1924–1995), Indonesian poet

Sc–Se

• Genrikh Sapgir, (1928–1999), Russian poet and fiction writer
• Leslie Scalapino, (1944–2010), U.S. poet
• Maurice Scève, (c. 1500–1564)
• Friedrich Schiller, (1759–1805), poet, playwright
• Arno Schmidt, (1914–1979)
• Dennis Schmitz (born 1937)
• Arthur Schnitzler, (1862–1931), writer
• Delmore Schwartz (In Dreams Begin Responsibilities)
• Sir Walter Scott, (1771–1832), inventor of historical novel
• Gil Scott-Heron, (born 1949)
• George Bazeley Scurfield, (1920–1991), English poet, novelist, author and politician
• Johannes Secundus, (1511–1536), Neo-Latin poet
• Peter Seaton, (1942–2010), U.S. poet
• Rebecca Seiferle
• Jaroslav Seifert, (1901–1986), (Nobel Prize)
• Léopold Senghor, (1906–2001)
• Robert W. Service, poet of the Yukon
• Vikram Seth
• Anne Sexton, (1928–1974)

Sh–Si

• Thomas Shadwell
• William Shakespeare, (c. 1564–1616), English poet
• Tupac Shakur, (1971–1996), Artist and black activist
• Otep Shamaya, (born 1979), poet and songwriter
• Ntozake Shange, (born 1948)
• Jo Shapcott
• Karl Shapiro
• Brenda Shaughnessy (born 1970)
• Mary Shelley, (1797–1851)
• Percy Bysshe Shelley, (1792–1822)
• William Shenstone
• Bhupi Sherchan, Nepal poet
• Taras Shevchenko
• Masaoka Shiki, (1867–1902), Japanese author, poet, literary critic, and journalist
• James Shirley, (1596–1666)
• Avraham Shlonsky
• Sir Philip Sidney, (born 1554)
• Eli Siegel, (1902–1978)
• Ron Silliman (born 1946)
• Shel Silverstein, (1930–1999)
• Simeon Simev
• Charles Simic
• Louis Simpson, (born 1923)
• Lemn Sissay
• Edith Sitwell, (1887–1964)
• Marilyn Singer

Sk–Sn

• John Skelton, (1460–1529)
• Sasha Skenderija
• Ed Skoog (born 1971)
• Pencho Slaveykov, (1866–1912), Bulgarian poet
• Petko Slaveykov, (1827–1895), Bulgarian poet, publicist, folklorist
• Kenneth Slessor
• Anton Martin Slomsek, (1800–1862), bishop, author, poet and national regenerator.
• Juliusz Slowacki
• Boris Slutsky, (1919–1986), Russian poet
• Christopher Smart
• Hristo Smirnenski, (1898–1923), Bulgarian poet and writer
• Charlotte Turner Smith, (1749–1806)
• Clark Ashton Smith, (1893–1961)
• Joseph D. Smith {Son of Kentucky Colonel, Hon. Wendell Joe Smith}
• Margaret Smith, American poet and artist
• Patti Smith {poet and songwriter}
• Stevie Smith, (1902–1971)
• William Jay Smith
• Tobias Smollett, (1721–1771)
• Gary Snyder, (born 1930), (beat – Regarding Wave)

So–Sp

• Edith Södergran
• Sōgi (1421–1502), Japanese waka and renga poet
• Nishiyama Sōin, (1605–1682), Japanese haikai poet
• David Solway, (born 1941)
• William Somervile, (1675–1742)
• Sophocles, (c.496–406 BC), Athenian tragedian
• Charles Sorley, (1895–1915), war poet
• Natsume Sōseki, (1867–1916), Kokoro, I Am a Cat
• Gary Soto
• Robert Southey, (1774–1843), Poet Laureate 1813
• Robert Southwell, (1561–1595)
• Stephen Spender, (Twenty Poems - Oxford, 1930)
• Edmund Spenser, (1552–1599)

St

Sta–Sto

• Leopold Staff
• William Stafford
• Harold Standish, (1919–1972), Canadian poet
• Ann Stanford (1916–1987)
• George Starbuck
• Statius, (c. AD 45–96)
• Joseph Stefan, (1835–1893), Slovene
• Gertrude Stein, (1874–1946), Modernist innovator in prose and poetry
• Eric Stenbock
• Mattie Stepanek, (1990–2004), American poet and advocate
• Gerald Stern
• C. J. Stevens, (born 1927), American poet
• Wallace Stevens, (1880–1955)
• Robert Louis Stevenson, (1850–1894)
• Trumbull Stickney, (19th c.)
• James Still
• Dejan Stojanović (born 1959), Serbian-American poet, writer, essayist, philosopher, businessman, and former journalist
• Donna J. Stone (1933–1994), American poet and philanthropist
• Ruth Stone, (born 1915)
• Theodor Storm, (1817–1888)
• Alfonsina Storni, (1892–1938)

Str–Stu

• Mark Strand (former Poet Laureate, Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry winner)
• Botho Strauss, (born 1944)
• Joseph Stroud, (born 1943)
• Jesse Stuart

Su–Sz

• Su Shi
• Su Xiaoxiao
• Michael Subritzky (b. 1950) New Zealand historian, writer, soldier and war poet
• Sir John Suckling
• Suleiman the Magnificent, ruler of the Ottoman Empire and Islamic poet
• Cemal Süreya
• Patrick Süskind (b. 1949)
• Paul Summers poet (b. 1967)
• Robert Sward poet (b. 1933)
• Cole Swensen poet (b. 1955), awarded Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry 2006
• Karen Swenson (born 1936)
• May Swenson
• Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)
• Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909)
• Anna Swir, (1909–1984), Polish poet
• Joshua Sylvester (1563–1618)
• Lőrinc Szabó Hungarian poet
• Arthur Sze (born 1950)
• Wisława Szymborska (b. 1923), Polish poet, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1996
• Sultan bin Ali Al Owais (1925–2000), Arab Poet and philanthropist, and prominent business man of the UAE.

T

Ta–Te

• Thiruvalluvar,(31A.D.),Tamil poet
• Rabindranath Tagore, (1861–1941), Bengali poet, Nobel laureate of 1913
• Tao Qian
• Jovica Tasevski-Eternijan, Macedonian poet, essayist and literary critic
• Torquato Tasso, (1544–1595)
• Allen Tate, (1899–1979)
• James Tate
• Henry Taylor, (1800–1886)
• Henry S. Taylor
• Sara Teasdale (1884–1933)
• Telesilla (fl. 510BC), Greek poet
• Alfred Tennyson, (1809–1892), English poet
• Elaine Terranova (born 1939)
• Lucy Terry
• A.S.J. Tessimond
• Neyzen Tevfik

Th–To

• Ernest Thayer, (1863–1940)
• Theocritus (fl. 3rd century BC), bucolic poet
• Jan Theuninck, (born 1954)
• Dylan Thomas, (1914–1953)
• Edward Thomas, (1878–1917)
• Lorenzo Thomas, (1944–2005)
• R. S. Thomas, (1913–2000)
• John Thompson, (1845–1913), Canadian writer
• Francis Thompson, (1859–1907)
• James Thomson, (1700–1748)
• James Thomson, (1834–1882)
• Henry David Thoreau, (1817–1862)
• Tibullus, (c. 54 BC–19 BC)
• Chidiock Tichborne, (1558–1586), conspirator and poet
• Thomas Tickell
• Ludwig Tieck, (1773–1853)
• Melvin B. Tolson
• Jean Toomer

Tr–Tz

• Thomas Traherne
• Georg Trakl, (1887–1914)
• Elizabeth Treadwell (1967–)
• Michel Tremblay, (born 1942), author, playwright, poet
• Roland Michel Tremblay, (born 1972), author, poet, scriptwriter
• Calvin Trillin, (born 1935), American writer of comic verse
• Quincy Troupe
• Tõnu Trubetsky Estonian/Ruthenian poet
• Marina Tsvetaeva, (1892–1941), Russian poet
• Kurt Tucholsky, (1890–1935), German poet
• Hovhannes Tumanyan, (1869–1923), the "All-Armenian poet"
• Julian Turner (born 1955), English poet
• Thomas Tusser, 16th century English poet.
• Ğabdulla Tuqay, (1886–1913), Tatar poet
• Hone Tuwhare, (born 1922)
• Julian Tuwim
• Jan Twardowski
• Chase Twichell (born 1950)
• Pontus de Tyard, (c. 1521–1605)
• Fyodor Tyutchev, (1803–1873)
• Tristan Tzara, (1896–1963), (Dada)

U

• Miguel de Unamuno
• Giuseppe Ungaretti, Italian poet
• Louis Untermeyer, (1885–1977), (Treasury of Erotic Poetry)
• John Updike, (born 1932), (Facing Nature)
• Amy Uyematsu (born 1947)
• Allen Upward, Imagist
• Kavisekhara Dr Umar Alisha

V

Va–Ve

• Mona Van Duyn
• Cesar Vallejo, (1892–1938)
• Paul Valéry, (1871–1945), French author and poet of the Symbolist school
• Jean-Pierre Vallotton, (1955), French speaking Swiss poet and writer
• Varand, (Born 1954), Armenian poet, writer, translator, painter, professor of Armenian literature
• Dimitris Varos, (1949–)
• Henry Vaughan, (1621–1695)
• Reetika Vazirani, (1962–2003)
• Ivan Vazov, (1850–1921), Bulgarian poet, novelist and playwright
• Vazha-Pshavela (Luka Razikashvili), (1861–1915)
• Vemana
• Helen Vendler
• Jacint Verdaguer, (1845–1902)
• Paul Verlaine, (1844–1896)
• Paul Vermeersch, (born 1973) Canadian
• Alfonso Vallejo, (born 1943) Spanish

Vi–Vr

• Francis Vielé-Griffin (symbolist)
• Peter Viereck
• Xavier Villaurrutia (1903–1950)
• François Villon, (1431–c.1474)
• Gilles Vigneault, (born 1928), Quebec singer-songwriter and poet
• Publius Vergilius Maro
• Roemer Visscher, (1547–1620), Dutch salesman, writer and poet
• Walther von der Vogelweide, (c. 1170–c. 1230)
• Vincent Voiture, (1598–1648)
• Joost van den Vondel, (1587–1679), Dutch playwright, poet
• Andrei Voznesensky, (born 1933)
• Stanko Vraz, (1810–1851)

W

Wa

• Wace (c. 1115–c. 1183)
• Sidney Wade (born 1951)
• Diane Wakoski (born 1937)
• Derek Walcott (born 1930)
• Rosmarie Waldrop (born 1935)
• Arthur Waley (1889–1966)
• Alice Walker (born 1944)
• Edmund Waller (1606–1687)
• Connie Wanek (born 1952)
• Wang Wei (698–759)
• Emily Warn
• Robert Penn Warren (1905–1989)
• Thomas Warton (1728–1790)
• Roger Waters (born 1943)
• Barrett Watten (born 1948)
• Isaac Watts (1674–1748)
• David Wayne (1914–1995)

We–Wh

• John Webster (c.1580–c.1634
• Rebecca Wee
• Hannah Weiner (1928–1997)
• Wei Ying-wu (737-792) Chinese poet
• Wen Yiduo Chinese poet (1899–1946)
• Philip Whalen (1923–2002)
• Margaret Walker (1915–1998)
• Martin Walser (born 1927)
• Franz Werfel (1890–1945)
• Johan Herman Wessel (1742–1785)
• Phillis Wheatley (1753–1784)
• E.B. White (1899–1985), American essayist, author, humorist, and poet
• James L. White (1936–1981), American poet, editor and teacher
• Walt Whitman (1819–1892), American poet, essayist, journalist, and humanist
• Isabella Whitney b. 1540s?
• Reed Whittemore b. 1919, American poet, biographer, critic, literary journalist and college professor
• John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892), American poet

Wi

• Les Wicks (1955–)
• Ulrika Widström (1764–1841)
• John Wieners (1934–2002)
• Richard Wilbur (born 1921)
• Jane Wilde, (1826–1896)
• Oscar Wilde, (1854–1900)
• John Wilkinson (born 1953)
• William IX, Duke of Aquitaine (1071–1126)
• Emmett Williams (1925–2007)
• Jonathan Williams (poet), (1929–2008)
• Miller Williams (born 1930)
• Oscar Williams (1900–1964)
• Saul Williams (born 1972)
• Sherley Anne Williams (1944–1999)
• Waldo Williams (1904–1971)
• William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)
• William Williams Pantycelyn (1717–1791)
• John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647–1680)
• Eleanor Wilner, (born 1937)
• Peter Lamborn Wilson
• Christian Wiman (born 1966)
• Yvor Winters (1900–1968)
• George Wither (1588–1667)

Wo–Wy

• [(Chester Roger Webster)] (born 1951–)
• Rafał Wojaczek (born 1945–1971)
• Christa Wolf (born 1929)
• Charles Wolfe, (1791–1823)
• Hans Wollschläger(1935–2007)
• George Woodcock (1912–1995)
• Dorothy Wordsworth (1771–1855)
• William Wordsworth (1770–1850)
• Franz Wright (born 1953)
• Philip Stanhope Worsley (1835–1866)
• Charles Wright (born in 1935)
• C.D. Wright, (born 1949)
• James Wright (1927–1980)
• Judith Wright (1915–2000)
• Thomas Wyatt (1503–1542)
• Elinor Wylie (1885–1928)
• Hedd Wyn (1887–1917)

X

• Emanuel Xavier, (born 1971)
• Xu Zhimo, (1897–1931)

Y

• Leo Yankevich (born 1961)
• Peyo Yavorov (1878–1914)
• William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
• Sergei Yesenin, (1895–1925)
• Yevgeny Yevtushenko (born 1933)
• Akiko Yosano, (1878–1942), Japanese author, poet, feminist and pacifist
• Marguerite Young (1908–1995)
• David Young (born 1946)
• Edward Young (1683–1765)
• Kevin Young (born 1970)
• A. W. Yrjänä (1967–)
• Yuan Mei (1716–1797) Chinese poet
• Yunus Emre (1238?–1320?)

Z

• Adam Zagajewski (born 1945)
• Andrea Zanzotto (born 1921)
• Matthew Zapruder (born 1967)
• Marya Zaturenska (1902–1982)
• Benjamin Zephaniah (born 1958)
• Calvin Ziegler (1854–1930)
• Zuhayr ibn Abî Sûlmâ (520–609)
• Louis Zukofsky (1904–1978)